What was the worst advice you've ever been given? \ stacker news ~ideasfromtheedge

What was the worst advice you've ever been given?

1793 sats \ 28 comments \ @Taft 8 Jun ideasfromtheedge

I have another difficult question for you Stackers.

The worst advice I ever got was this: Don't buy bitcoins because it's a Ponzi scheme. In 2016 or 2017, I had read somewhere on the web about bitcoin and blockchain and it seemed very interesting to me. Then I asked a friend of mine who was more technical than me and he told me that Bitcoin is a scam, it's a Ponzi scheme, don't spend your money on it, and don't waste your time on this thing.

And I took his advice and showed no interest in Bitcoin until 2022 when I started reading and learning about Bitcoin because another friend I met at that time convinced me that Bitcoin was one of the most brilliant inventions of all time.

I owe a lot to that second friend.

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163 sats \ 3 replies \ @benthecarman 8 Jun

When I first started to try to work in bitcoin my parents gave me a lot of bad advice for questions to ask in interviews. Also when I started doing open source they wanted me to try to get patents on everything.

I love them for trying to help but the open source world is very different than the rest.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kilianbuhn 9 Jun

The world changed so much and so quick

The advice your grandparents gave your parents made sense. The advice your great grandparents gave your grandparents probably made sense. The advice our parents generation wants to give us is very out of touch.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9 Jun

What kind of questions did they suggest you ask? This has piqued my interest

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 9 Jun

I was interviewing for the chaincode residency and my parents thought of it as an internship so ask about if i can progress into a full time and if they're able to connect me to other companies. When I asked those questions it totally felt wrong because thats not really the mindset you should be going into with the residency

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 8 Jun

Sleep with your best friend

I didn’t and I’m glad

247 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 8 Jun

When I was studying computer science and finally becoming the nerd I was destined to be, my dad tried to convince me, in a rage, to be a court stenographer for some weird reason.

123 sats \ 0 replies \ @jeff 9 Jun

Steady pay and hours, job-security due to shelter from economic booms and bust or changing industry trends, low/no co-worker drama. You clock in, you clock out.

Once upon a time, these were very desirable traits in a job. In a certain light, I could see it being fairly pragmatic and sound advice from a Dad who a) genuinely probably just wants whats best for their kid and b) has a narrow or naive view of vocations beyond his own direct and hands on experience.

But - lol - ROFL - what a boring job, boring way to live. omg.

113 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 9 Jun

I have known many court stenographers. I can't picture you sitting there changing the empty paper roll on your machine.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jun

It’s also a female job?

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 9 Jun

The stenographer keyboard always fascinated me. But also, why can’t we just record these events instead of having someone type what was said? Siggy probably knows the answer

129 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 9 Jun

I don't have a full answer, but I suspect because a written transcript is beneficial beyond just the recording of it.

Being able to search case law, aggregate testimonies, etc. The text represents is the most compact possible value of what happened in the case (ie. its not important that they scratched their chin at minute 2:43...)

Having said that, I'm sure eventually AI will be trusted enough to provide real-time translation.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiksn 8 Jun

Guess you shouldn't listen to friends but make your own decisions.

67 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 9 Jun

Many years ago when I was fresh out of college I was working in the retail business and I got offered a management job within the company and the union rep for store employees warned me I shouldn’t take the job because “the union can’t protect you anymore.”

Thankfully I didn’t listen to this terrible advance. Took the management job and then a regional managers job 5 years after that and had more than tripled my salary within 5 years. I then started a business based on the contacts I had acquired being in management and having more responsibility. I owned and ran that business for over 15 years before selling it two years ago.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jun

Unions giving bad advice

I’m shocked lol

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 9 Jun

Unions only care about the success of the union not its members.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jun

Gangsters

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 9 Jun

Max out your yearly tax free allocation to your retirement fund, lol wtf? its going to zero anyway, by the time i'm 55 i'd likley get myself one or two avo toast sarmies and thats it, should have just bought Bitcoin

112 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun

The worse advice I ever received. There's plenty of fish in the sea.

Me trying to get a damn fish.

79 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 9 Jun

To get married!! Though I didn't follow and hereI am.

99 sats \ 0 replies \ @617a7a 9 Jun

Username checks out

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 9 Jun

Do not contradict your elders

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @JesseJames 9 Jun

"we are from the government and we are here to help"

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jun

Thoreau and Reagan

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun

22? I guess that's not a bad time to DCA into BTC at the time. Good job, Yeah. The best thing to do these days is reject everything your family, friends, and co-workers say. F-them. If they support bombing other countries, they stay. But if you believe in free markets and freedom, come join the dark side!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 9 Jun

Good things come to those who wait. That's probably the worst advice I've ever been given. It took me years to realize that things don't just happen.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 9 Jun

In my case, I don't take suggestions or if taken I often don't oblige to. I don't remember any advice that someone gave me and I obliged after I got ti adulthood.

Yes, when I was a child, I remember how I wanted to be a cricketer but there was one uncle who would often advise that learning cricket and getting into a team required a lot of money. "You can't be nowhere with Cricket." And I not being fron a family of riches obliged and left the idea of becoming a cricketer.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jun

Don’t be cynical Be idealistic

Terrible advice from David McCullough

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @devchetal99 8 Jun outlawed

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